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Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law an increase in California’s minimum wage. Effective July 1, 2014, California’s $8.00 per hour minimum wage will increase to $9.00 per hour. A second increase to $10.00 per hour is effective January 1, 2016. This increase represents the first increase in the state’s minimum wage in six years.

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As the holiday season approaches, so does California’s Dungeness commercial crab season. Set to open in Central California, south of the Mendocino-Sonoma county line, on November 15, and in early December northern portions of the state, the 2013-2014 season will be the first commercial crab season under the new trap limit laws. While in previous seasons, the number of crab pots commercial crab fishermen could fish was not limited by law, new statutes and regulations now assign each California commercial Dungeness crab permit a maximum number of traps that may be used.

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Humboldt County general surgeon Luther Cobb, M.D. has been named the California Medical Association’s (CMA) President Elect. Dr. Cobb will serve in that capacity for one year and will assume the office of President following next October’s CMA House of Delegates meeting.